Giambattista Orsini

Giambattista Orsini (1450-22 February 1503) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Biography
Giambattista Orsini was born in Rome in 1450 to the prestigious House of Orsini, and he became a cleric of the Apostolic Camera, an auditor of the Roman Rota, a canon of St. Peter's Basilica, and a protonotary apostolic. In 1483, Pope Sixtus IV made him Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII named Orsini Papal legate to the March of Ancona, and he became deacon of Santa Maria Nova in 1488 and apostolic administrator of Taranto in 1490, serving until 1498. In 1492, he voted in favor of Pope Alexander VI, and he was given the harbor at Porto in exchange for voting for his election. In 1493, he was ordained as a priest in his titular church at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, and he was sent to Milan as Papal legate to King Louis XII of France in 1499. On 13 July 1502, he attended a meeting with his family in order to plot against Cesare Borgia, but he was captured, imprisoned in the Castel Sant'Angelo, and possibly even murdered.